METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF GENRE MODELING USING PROTOTYPE THEORY

Abstract

The article defines the methodological problems of constructing a model of the speech genre. The question is raised that the method of describing the speech genre in modern linguistics needs to be elaborated on the principles. The principle of prototypical analysis developed in modern science needs to be corrected. In particular, the international analysis of the speech genre is based more on the intuitive principle of determining the characteristics of the genre, which leads to ambiguous results when modeling it. The article defines principles of genre analysis and identifies some errors of prototypical analysis. The elimination of errors will allow genre studies to move to a new methodological principle of constructing a genre model that has a diagnostic potential. One of the solutions to the problems of the theory of speech genre studies is the method of functional genre modeling developed by the authors of the article.